On 2015-09-10 02:45:43 +0000, Travis McGee said:

> In a new video by Vice's Munchies, seen above, the chef explains the
> right and wrong way to eat sushi. Rule one, eat cut rolls with your
> hands.

Rule two, disregard rule one. The flavor is not changed by eating with
chopsticks. No one is offended by eating with chop sticks. Eating with
a knife and fork is kinda uncool, but whoever is carping about it would
be uncooler still.

> And when you dunk your piece of sushi roll into soy sauce, well, don't
> dunk it. Just dip what Yasuda says is "enough" to taste the soy sauce,
> then eat it. And don't ever, ever eat the pickled ginger with your
> sushi. It's meant to be eaten by itself, after you've eaten a piece of
> sushi.

That was it's intentions, but the way cuisines grow is when people *do
what they like*. Almost everyone I knew 20 years ago that floated
sushi in soy sauce or placed ginger on top of sushi before eating
doesn't do it any more. They stopped as their own palate educated
them. One guy I introduced to sushi who was a "floater". Now doesn't
use any soy at all. His palate has become refined by his own
explorations.

It's nice to be told how things are "best", but it's nicer to migrate
your ownself via experience.

> Everyone who shoves the unlimited supply of ginger on the table at
> Sushi Stop onto every single bite of sushi is silently crying. You know
> who you are.

I know who YOU are, that's for sure.

> And one of the biggest no-no's was how people normally dip nigiri into
> soy sauce. Yasuda explains how to properly dip sushi so that the fish,
> and not the rice, makes contact with the soy sauce. This makes sense
> when you think of all the times you've asked for a new soy sauce dish
> because yours is full of runaway pieces of rice.

People work out these things via pure logic. "Don't butter and jelly
the toast on both sides cause it's messy." They do it themselves and
they don't need to be told anymore.

> "What's important about sushi is the rice. The rice is the main
> ingredient. So people talk about the fish. But the fish, this is the
> second ingredient."
>
> Tell that to the people who ferociously bid on tuna at Tsukiji.

And now, a lesson on the proper way to hold your chopsticks...